Dolores Hayden’s scientific contributions

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Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development
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January 1979

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179 Citations

Technology and Culture

Dolores Hayden

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Manfredo Tafuri

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Barbara Luigi la Penta

Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace. It discusses the Garden Cities movement and the suburban developments it generated, the German-Russian architectural experiments of the 1920s, the place of the avant-garde in the plastic arts, and the uses and pitfalls of seismological approaches to architecture, and assesses the prospects of socialist alternatives.


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... Writing a critical analysis of futuring ambitions of the early and mid-twentieth century, Tafuri recognised that architects envisioning futuristic and utopian designs often remained constrained by capitalist tenets of development and growth. 48 With the climate crisis worsening, such tenets impinge on planetary boundaries with catastrophic consequences. The question remains as to how artists, architects, and other spatial practitioners might design critical and imaginative futures in a manner that avoids both fantastical invention and replicating the status quo via technical tweaks. ...

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For a World to Come: designing the future amidst climate crisis
Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development
  • Citing Article
  • January 1979

Technology and Culture